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Stallman on Openness. Don’t be an Ass – Tom Slee

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Tom Slee ». Stallman on Openness. Don’t be an Ass. Stallman on Openness. Don’t be an Ass. May 22, 2015. In today’s Guardian Richard Stallman writes. A call-to-arms against technological surveillance. His form of opposition is to create free/libre software, but that is no solution. Stallman confronts his readers: “ Should you trust an internet of proprietary software things? Don’t be an ass. Stallman writes: “ What kinds of programs constitute malware? In short, free/libre software is no longer an alterna...

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From Memory Scarcity to Memory Abundance – The Frailest Thing

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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. Marshall McLuhan. From Memory Scarcity to Memory Abundance. January 25, 2013. June 10, 2013. The most famous section in arguably the most famous book. About photography, Roland Barthes’. It was too personal. It conveyed something true about his mother, but only to him. But what if Barthes had not a few, but hundreds or even thousands of images of his mother? Compared to these present and soon-to-be te...

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The Furies Within – The Frailest Thing

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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. Marshall McLuhan. March 9, 2014. 8220;By refusing to claim moral or personal authority, Auden placed himself firmly on one side of an argument that pervades the modern intellectual climate but is seldom explicitly stated, an argument about the nature of evil and those who commit it. From Edward Mendelson’s recent essay, “The Secret Auden.”. Click to email (Opens in new window). March 9, 2014 at 2:58 PM.

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Computers & Society: October 2014

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Revolutionizing Air Traffic Control. Rarely does the word efficiency come to mind when talking about Airports. But now there is a cutting edge technology that could revolutionize how airports are run. Remote controlled air traffic controllers. This is more cost effective, takes some burden off of the humans themselves, and also somehow much safer. Many of you are probably thinking, “this could easily get hijacked! Http:/ www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/business/international...It is...

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Det perfekta tomrummet | En samling observationer av Gustav Holmberg. ISSN 1651-4335

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En samling observationer av Gustav Holmberg. ISSN 1651-4335. Undervisning och externa föreläsningar. David Golumbia om digital humaniora. Jag läste Melissa Dinsmans intervju. Med David Golumbia. Golumbia. Som är professor i engelska vid Virginia Commonwealth University, publicerade tillsammans med Daniel Allington och Sarah Brouillette i maj “Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities”. One of the other things that troubles me about the digital humanities is its use of the...

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What Do We Want, Really? – The Frailest Thing

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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. Marshall McLuhan. What Do We Want, Really? December 31, 2014. January 2, 2015. I was in Amish country last week. Several times a day I heard the clip-clop of horse hooves and the whirring of buggy wheels coming down the street and then receding into the distance–a rather soothing Doppler effect. While there, I was reminded of an anecdote about the Amish relayed by a reader in the comments. That their ...

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Michael Sacasas – The Frailest Thing

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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. Marshall McLuhan. Injustice, Reform, and Optimism. July 13, 2016. In 1908, although it may have been first published earlier. In any case, there were a few interesting passages that resonated with our present political climate. What is the use of being a politician or a Parliamentary candidate at all if one cannot tell the people that if the other man gets in, England will be instantly invaded and ens...

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Louis C.K. Was Almost Right About Smartphones, Loneliness, Sadness, the Meaning of Life, and Everything – The Frailest Thing

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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. Marshall McLuhan. Louis C.K. Was Almost Right About Smartphones, Loneliness, Sadness, the Meaning of Life, and Everything. September 27, 2013. September 27, 2013. Let me tell you, briefly, what I appreciated about this bit, and then I’ll offer a modest refinement to Louis C.K.’s perspective. In Graham Greene’s. The Power and the Glory. His unnamed protagonist, the whiskey priest, comes to the followin...